Uglies Part 2 Vocabulary Check (1)

Which sentence correctly incorporates the word rendezvous?

• Tally and Shay had a rendezvous at Rusty Ruins with David.

• My mother and I had a rendezvous because I didn't pass my English test.

• The cowboy has a rendezvous with his rifle.

• Because of my rendezvous down the stairs, I broke my leg.

True or False:

When you make a blunder you make a silly mistake.

• True

• False

True or False:

The word alight is used correctly in this sentence:

Enemy soldiers set the building alight.

• True

• False

Which sentence incorrectly incorporates the meaning of the word inhospitable?

• Without the greenhouse gases, the world would be a bleak, inhospitable place.

• Peter is amazing and my best and most inhospitable friend.

• The doctor has to work in an inhospitable operating theatre.

• It was inhospitable of you not to offer her a drink and something to eat.

True or False:

The word gnarled is used correctly in this sentence:

Their faces were browned by the sun; their hands were hard and fingers gnarled; their backs were bent by much heavy lifting; their clothing was in tatters..

• True

• False

True or False:

The word berate is used correctly in this sentence:

Dr. Cable berated Tally because she went to the Rusty Ruins, knowing she wasn't allowed outside the city borders.

• True

• False

Which sentence incorrectly incorporates the meaning of the word heedless?

• She ran into the fire, heedless of the danger.

• Echo is heedlessly in love with a grade 12 student.

• Shay rode the rollercoaster, heedless of the gap.

• It was heedless of you to be so kind and caring of your grandmother when she was sick.

Which sentence incorrectly incorporates the meaning of the word impervious?

• He looked at her, impervious to her tears

• The car is made of steel so strong, as to be almost impervious to a bullet

• All humans are impervious to hunger and pain.

Type the correct form of the underlined word.

The vicious man appeared to be (maniac)

(a)  

"Their gray uniforms passed like fleeting shadows through the confusion."

"fleeting" as used in this quote from "Uglies" means:

• momentary

• dark

• translucent

• clear